visiting flood victims; flood relief visit
Archaic term for visiting people affected by a flood to offer sympathy or assistance. In modern Japanese, this concept is usually expressed with phrases like 水害の見舞い.
Old documents record visits to disaster areas as 水見舞い.
Means 'flood damage'; 水見舞い is the act of visiting those affected by such damage.
Standard kanji spelling with okurigana.
Variant without the final okurigana; less common but attested.
Compound of 水 (mizu, 'water') and 見舞い (mimai, 'visit to inquire after someone's health or to express sympathy'). The term is now archaic.